Brigitte Lacombe: "In my portraits, people really recognize themselves"

Since the end of adolescence and her first Nikon F offered by her father, the 72-year-old Frenchwoman has lived for photography.

After an apprenticeship in the laboratory of

magazine , Brigitte Lacombe launched her career at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, where she met Dustin Hoffman and Donald Sutherland, whom she followed to Hollywood.

To this day, she immortalizes the greatest actors and filmmakers of her time (documenting, in particular, the filming of Martin Scorsese over the past twenty years), but also anonymous people in the street, researchers awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, writers, including the late Joan Didion, and many fashion designers who don't like exposing themselves… except in front of their lens.

It is said of his portraits that they are bare.

And yet actors, politicians and artists never look so real and consistent as in his images, most often in black and white.

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